Features

These startups are developing new ways to reprogram biology by producing custom genes from scratch.

Steve Ramirez wants to zap bad memories and upgrade good ones.

George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space.

Gene editing scrambles a family’s connections in this original sci-fi story for stg-neolife-staging.kinsta.cloud.

A bioengineer, a biopunk, and a biotech reporter square off onstage about our neobiological future.

Nicole Prause left academia to study sexuality without institutional limits. Now she’s challenging orthodox views of climax and pornography.

How I hacked my diet using a continuous blood-glucose monitor.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman aims to give deaf people a new way to hear—and upgrade everyone else’s senses too.

Scientists and other creators tell us about the developments they’re watching for and the conversations they’ll be starting.

Seeing the universe as it is gives us strength rooted in humility.

Synthetic biologists aim to transform the world with manmade organisms. What will it take to get there?

Big indoor farms are attracting big investments. But transforming agriculture might depend on putting nanofarms everywhere — maybe even in your home.

Splice DNA. Live forever. Be merry.

A Chinese scientist engineered kids to resist HIV. Here are other changes that could be on the feature list for Humanity 2.0.

Space brain and other cosmic problems demand new kinds of pharmaceutical protection.